Deposed champions City are hoping to make Belgium international De Bruyne their first summer signing as part of their £150m rebuilding plan to reclaim the title.

That also includes bids for £40m-rated Sterling and £60m-rated Poga, while players set to leave City include strikers Stevan Jovetic and Edin Dzeko, as well as midfielder Samir Nasri, while James Milner has already joined Liverpool on a free transfer.

De Bruyne left Chelsea 18 months ago to join Wolfsburg, having made just two starts under Jose Mourinho at Stamford Bridge .

Although Chelsea received £18m for De Bruyne, Wolfsburg believe the 23-year-old, just one season into a five-year deal, is worth two-and-a-half-times that now.

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De Bruyne, speaking ahead of Belgium’s Euro 2016 qualifier against Wales in Cardiff on Friday night, acknowledged the interest in him but claimed Wolfsburg will have the final say on whether he stays or goes.

“We say to everybody – if they want to do something they have to go to Wolfsburg, not to me,” he said. “I always thought that I was going to talk to my club first when the season was over. And for me the season is not over. That starts probably next week or the week after but I will also be on vacation.

“I don’t have any stress about these things. It will come this way and I know that there are a lot of rumours and the papers are writing a lot.

“It’s been for me a wonderful season. I think the thing I’m most excited about is that I played almost everything, missed just one game, started everything and played everything.

“My time at Chelsea wasn’t bad. Everybody talks about it and that it was really bad but I just decided I didn’t want to stay at the club under those circumstances, I just wanted to play football and that’s what I did.”